I'm so afraid of this. I love these books, and when I heard the news I jumped on eBay and finally ordered the three-book collection with the original artwork so that my kids can read it when they're older. I had always planned on getting them, but I figured with this news they would be a lot harder to find soon enough. The new artwork they have is just hideous, and I'm afraid there's no way for them to capture the creepy horror of the original works in movie format. The stories themselves aren't even that scary, it's the PICTURES that terrified the crap out of me. My ADULT friend still cannot look at the picture of the ghost girl without getting freaked out.

this doesn't mean much, but im a screenwriting major in college and for one of my classes, we were suppose to choose something to adapt and I chose this chilling children's book by schwartz. I had it as kind of a Fantasia style with many different types of animation and songs and music. Even though it is a disturbing book, I hope that they do rememebr that it is, or at leat was inteded to be, a children's book, so i hope they don't go making it all fucked up saw torture shit.

This could be interesting but only if they don't turn it into "torture porn". I feel like that trend is on the downturn but maybe they want to use this property to drum it up again? Ugh, I hope not, that's entirely not what this series is for/about.